It looks like the Creator's update pushed out and/or reset new stuff from Microsoft.
I have uninstalled and disabled UWPs as much as I can, along with Cortana and Edge. Yet today I saw a weird green bar popup saying something about "Press Win + G to bring up the game bar". I figured it would have to do with the Xbox UWP app, which I have previously uninstalled. I presume this is UWP functionality, but I'm not sure how to find out for certain.
Can this app or program exist outside of the UWP ecosystem? Is it a part of the Xbox app? What method(s) are there to remove it? Is there a prophylactic to prevent such things in the future?
I'm currently stuck in Windows Home, even though I tried to upgrade to Pro (not me, but gives you context). I will be fixing that sometime soon.
Best Answer
The
Game DVR
feature and specifically the in-gameGame Bar
that appears in compatible applications, is controlled by the Xbox Universal Windows Platform application, which is one of the default provisioned UWP applications.Yes
In order to disable the Game DVR you have to disable it within the Xbox application.
Source: How to Disable Windows 10’s Game DVR (and Game Bar)
Once you disable the Game DVR functionality it will stay disabled.
In order to turn UAC competely, open regedit, and navigate to following location.
You are going to have to modify the value of EnableLUA to 0. Setting the UAC setting to it's lowest setting, within the Control Panel on Windows 10, does not actually disable UAC.